Sorority dedicated to serving others

Gamma Sigma Sigma is an on-campus sorority that is dedicated to service.

Every GCSU sorority has a philanthropy they support, though. Kappa Delta has several including, Girl Scouts of the USA and the Children’s Hospital of Richmond, Va., Alpha Delta Pi has Ronald McDonald House Charity and Zeta Tau Alpha’s main focus is Breast Cancer Awareness.

Gamma Sig, as the members call it, has many charities it works with. The president of the sorority, Phetsada Mounnarath, a senior creative writing major, explained that her sorority is involved in an array of volunteer work.

“Some of the girls are into helping animals so we have some volunteers at Caring for Creatures and we always love helping out Relay for Life,” Mounnarath said.

Another member of the sorority, Sonya Anderson, senior exercise science major, said it also works with Locks of Love and One Campaign, which raises hunger and homelessness awareness. Those are the two main focuses this spring.

“Everyone has a niche of what they like. The members get into sub-groups of what they like to do,” Anderson said.

Every chapter of the service gets opportunities together for the club and presents them to the members.

Both girls have favorite charities that they love. The sorority’s biggest event is Relay for Life and this is Mounnarath’s favorite charity. Anderson loves Habitat for Humanity, which the sorority has worked with in the past.

They do have social things like other sororities. They have formals as well and that is what makes them similar to other sororities. But they are different from other volunteer clubs on campus according to Anderson.

“We are different from other organizations because we have a sisterhood,” Anderson said.

“We also make it a point to know everyone and their names no matter how many members we have,” Mounnarath said.

Numbers have depleted and grown off and on from the chapter’s founding in 1997, but currently the group has approximately 55 girls.

The group’s rush is in the fall, but in previous years it was in both the spring and fall semesters. It’s held a few weeks after school starts, which is unusual for a sorority, but it’s something that’s been an ongoing tradition for Gamma Sig.

“Personally we like to let the school year get going before we jump into it. We think this is less stressful for the freshman,” Mounnarath said.

Freshman Danielle Mullen liked the sorority’s tradition of holding rush because she felt like she got to choose the sorority, instead of the sorority choosing her.

“I found the sorority to be a wonderful to meet girls my own age who had my same interests for community service and assisting others, whether in a small way on campus, or perhaps in outreach programs,” Mullen said.

Posted by Danielle Paluga on Jan 29 2010. Filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry